*Introduction*
This publication contains the Arabic Newswire A Corpus, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2001T55 and ISBN 1-58563-190-6. The Arabic Newswire Corpus is composed of articles from the Agence France Presse (AFP) Arabic Newswire. The source material was tagged using TIPSTER-style SGML and was transcoded to Unicode (UTF-8). The corpus includes articles from May 13, 1994 to December 20, 2000.
*Data*
The data is in 2,337 compressed (zipped) Arabic text data files. There are 209 Mb of compressed data (869 Mb uncompressed) with approximately 383,872 documents containing 76 million tokens over approximately 666,094 unique words.
A template of the tagging is presented below.
yyyymmdd_AFP_ARB.dddd Arabic Text Arabic TextOne or More Paragraphs of Arabic Text
Arabic Text Arabic Text For a sample file of tagged articles, please see this sample.
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